It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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The present is great with the future.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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What is is what must be.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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